It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

I have to confess I do have a slight preference. I do think, naturally, that people from India and Australia are in some ways more likely to speak English, understand common law, and have a connection with this country than some people that come perhaps from countries that haven't fully recovered from being behind the Iron Curtain.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.